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Dear Susan, Thank you for writing. The city councillors are ELECTED, so my access to them has been blocked by City lawyer Gary Wood. I have tried to interest the local ACLU branch, without success. I think a lot of the discrimination I have been experiencing revolves around the EXPECTED IMAGE of a PWP. This is docile, shaking, elderly and NOT vocal like me! Elizabeth Boynton, Assoc. Attorney, said I am "different" and that she does not trust me. This might be explained because I am being labelled by her as "not remembering" to discredit me or maybe there are MANY elderly and disabled homeowners out there who did not have the strength to fight, and who can be manipulated more easily. I might be the ffirst PWP in the United States to fight back.as hard as I am. I don't know. It is VERY draining. I also want to make it clear that although someone just posted something about my being sued by the Corporation Counsel of Portland, I have only (!) been liened and subjected to foreclosure proceedings. The impending foreclosure date of Dec. 16th is over unpaid taxes.Some- times it's a sewer foreclosure, even though I'm on SEPTIC!!! The City keeps claiming I am "MISSPENDINIG" my $687.00 of Social Security Disability Income. My taxes were raised to $2400 per year. My home is extensively PD- and wheelchair-adapted. I am just starting now to talk with several people at US Rep. Tom Allen's office. The City's Corporation Counsel first instructed the welfare officers to tell me I would NEVER be eligible for City Welfare in 1993.That was shortly after my SSDI started. Ivan Suzman On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:38:48 -0800 Susan Trout <[log in to unmask]> writes: >I'm not an attorney, just a citizen activist in Washington state. >Have >Ivan's US Senators and Representative been contacted for help? Has >the ACLU >or the Office for Civil Rights (in the US Department of Education >been >contacted for help? Ivan refers to a city counsellor? Is that an >elected >representative or a counselor to talk with? If it is elected, that >becomes a First Amendment issue (SNIPPED)